Tuesday 13 August 2019

How do I add environment variables in Unix



Question: How to print the environment values?
printenv

OR
env



Question: How to SET the environment values For Korn shell (KSH)?
var=value
export varname



Question: How to SET the environment values For Bourne shell (sh and bash)?
export var=value



Question: How to SET the environment values For C shell (csh or tcsh)?
setenv var value



Question: What is .bashrc?
.bashrc is a shell script that Bash runs whenever it is started interactively.


Question: Can we set the environment value in .bashrc?
Yes, you can set the value in this also. like below
export PATH="$PATH:/some/addition"